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toiling
toil 1 T0249500 (toil)intr.v. toiled, toil·ing, toils 1. To labor continuously; work strenuously.2. To proceed with difficulty: "The old woman ... proceeded to toil up the narrow staircase before us" (James Joyce).n.1. Exhausting labor or effort. See Synonyms at work.2. Archaic Strife; contention.
[Middle English toilen, from Anglo-Norman toiler, to stir about, from Latin tudiculāre, from tudicula, a machine for bruising olives, diminutive of tudes, hammer.]
toil′er n.
toil 2 T0249500 (toil)n.1. often toils Something that binds, snares, or entangles one; an entrapment: caught in the toils of despair.2. Archaic A net for trapping game.
[French toile, cloth, from Old French teile, from Latin tēla, web; see teks- in Indo-European roots.]Thesaurus| Adj. | 1. |  toiling - doing arduous or unpleasant work; "drudging peasants"; "the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton"; "toiling coal miners in the black deeps"drudging, laboring, labouringbusy - actively or fully engaged or occupied; "busy with her work"; "a busy man"; "too busy to eat lunch" |
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Synonyms for toilingadj doing arduous or unpleasant workSynonyms- drudging
- laboring
- labouring
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